A renovated space along New York City’s Madison Avenue became an opportunity to uniquely enhance a furniture showroom and to show how nature enriches an indoor environment. With a design based on signature interior gardens of the company’s corporate showroom in Milan, Italy, Charlesworth Fleischacker created a lush, sustainable garden in a compact space for maximum visual impact. We devised a setting where plantings would thrive—managing lighting levels, moisture, humidity, and air circulation to support the lush composition of tropical trees, groundcovers, and textures in a rich palette of greens.

The closing of a 100-year old quarry in northern New Jersey becomes an opportunity for an innovative new community of homes, commerce and nature. With a forward-thinking developer and a team of design professionals, Charlesworth Fleischacker is working to transform this 180-acre site into a resilient, healthy community design that strongly embraces nature.

Starting with this blank slate, we look to design a model landscape that will regenerate healthy natural systems for soils, water (including a 40-acre lake), meadows, future woodlands and habitat. And thoughtfully woven into this fabric will be a unique community of homes, parks and places of commerce where residents and visitors can closely engage nature in the decades to come.

A client in eastern Pennsylvania asked Charlesworth Fleischacker for a solution for a rocky eroding hillside overlooking a five-acre lake. We responded with a scheme of bold sweeps of plantings in tiered shelfs and a stone stairway snuggled in the 30-foot drop. We worked with local builders on site to layout stairs and retaining walls of boulders and oversized recycled timbers. Not only did we stabilize the hillside but we created a lush natural canvas painted with bold textures and colors that changes with the seasons.

Several hundred acres in central New Jersey have the potential to become a model regenerative village. Landscape architects Charlesworth Fleischacker, with a team of permaculturalists, water use experts and a visionary client, are formulating a design to create a residential village that reflects the scale and community feel of small hamlets found historically in central New Jersey. Yet the components of this village reflect a decidedly contemporary outlook—small footprint homes, regenerative storm water systems, farmland and fruit and nut orchards adjacent to homes, regenerated woodlands, a farm-to-table restaurant, and a nursery for native plants among others. We envision a model walkable community, where residents engage closely with the landscape, with nature, and with their neighbors.

Working closely with a long-time colleague now based in Italy, Charlesworth Fleischacker brings our vision to rejuvenate the landscape of a century-old school campus. Our master plan shows opportunities for a garden classroom, gathering places for students and faculty, vegetable gardens paired with the school’s kitchens—all on a campus within sight of some of Rome’s ancient monuments. We have helped reimagine the courtyard core of the school as a calm green oasis for students and faculty. And at the core of our work is, as always, the desire to make places where people engage with nature and with each other.